You know that saying.. “when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade”… well, sometimes, you just want to throw something back in its face. I can’t help feeling that way more often than I’d like to admit.
I have had a rough weekend, and I’m just now getting around to posting about it.
Friday, last week, was supposed to be the beginning of a fun-filled weekend, spent camping with Cub Scouts for Austin’s group.
However, here’s how things went down instead.
I had been at work not even 3 hours, and here comes the call from his teacher. She was having difficulties getting him to focus and do his classwork. We have an agreement, or contract rather, that if he doesn’t adhere to it, the principal has to go get him from class and take him to the office. He would not go to the office with her, so I had to drop what I was doing at work, drive to the school, to get him to go to the office, and do his work. It was super frustrating, because I also had plans to go to the gym on my lunch break. There went that!!
So, there had to be a consequence for his behavior. I decided that camping was off the table for us this past weekend. He needed to have a weekend to think about what he’s doing, and refusing to do, and really understand that every choice has a consequence. He even told April later that he thought I would change my mind about this. I knew even more that I had to stick to my guns with this one. It was so hard, but I did it. My heart was heavy all weekend long over it.
Tonight, we have a Cub Scout meeting, and it’s going to be nice to hear how the weekend went for everyone else. We missed out on the first campout, but hoping we don’t have to in the spring.
Autumn also acted up on Friday. The new school nurse called me and said that she was complaining of pain in her elbow, and couldn’t focus on school. hmmmm. I hadn’t seen the wound to really know whether it was something needing urgent medical attention, and the nurse really wasn’t much help in that way. So, I made the decision to have April go get her and take her home. Well, when April got there and saw the “boo boo,” it wasn’t bad at all. April took her home though, because that’s what I had instructed her to do. My dad found out about it later, and made April take her back to school. He felt that she was trying to deliberately play the system, and manipulate everyone. So, she had to go back to school for the remaining 2 hours of the school day.
All weekend was spent mostly electronic free. We did watch a movie together one evening, and they got brief time on electronics toward the end, but only after we went to April’s and picked up walnuts and raked leaves in her backyard for 1 1/2 hours. That was great work and we got a lot done together. They didn’t like it, but we are all better for it.
Lessons learned, I sure hope…
Hoping for a better week ahead and a FUN weekend coming up…
All in a Day 